"The seniors still call me Erlang, Chen is just a junior who went to sea a few years earlier than Gong Yin."

Don't care if Yin Zhengmao's title is not true, anyway, Chen Mu is not true - as the saying goes, people don't ask for people, not to mention that since Yin Zhengmao was appointed as a Western minister, it will only be a matter of a few days for him to become an important minister of the Beiyang Military Government, and they are colleagues at the same level to put it bluntly.

The only thing that is more is just a title, and a title and an official position are two different things...... It doesn't make sense to get along with officials, even if it's a duke, if you are a commander-in-chief, you still have to bow down to the governor.

Can't you say that you can compete with your boss with a special allowance?

Inexistent.

What's more, if overseas affairs are done well, with the same merits, Yin Zhengmao is ten times easier to be knighted than Chen Mu!

"Yin Gong came just in time, there is no good wine and good food to entertain here, but there is a picture for Yin Gong to see."

Chen Mu welcomed Yin Zhengmao into the hundred households yamen, he was telling the truth, this Dagukou fortress is a hundred households, he didn't expect Yin Zhengmao to come to visit him, ask someone to make tea, and take out the design of the Beiyang yamen, and very enthusiastically combined several tables and spread them on it for Yin Zhengmao to watch.

Chen Mu was very proud to prepare the map, but in fact, he carefully watched Yin Zhengmao's expression, he wanted to know what kind of person this was, and he wanted to know if such a person with a bad reputation would affect his arrangement of Daming overseas.

He originally thought that the Minister of the West would be the position of Gao Gong, even if Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng had a gap, but others could not play overseas affairs, even if there was a naval martial arts hall, I really wanted to wait for that group of people to be able to take charge on their own, at least for ten years.

Chen Mu always thought that the ministers of the Four Oceans would only come out of his Nanyang system, but he didn't expect it to be Yin Zhengmao.

Yin Zhengmao looked at it very carefully, more carefully than Chen Mu imagined, and even got up to find out the rules in the yamen, and carefully compared the distance of the cannon temple at the place where the grass head entered the sea gate on the design drawing...... Chen Mudu suspected that Yin Zhengmao was deliberately pretending to be so careful.

The whole design includes fortresses, cannon temples, steel brick mud structures, trench artillery defenses and other structures, which are not from Nanyang enough to understand.

For a long time, Yin Zhengmao carefully groped for the setting map, Chen Mu could only wait for him to watch, and he was even a little sleepy, only to see Yin Zhengmao put down the rules and looked up at Chen Mu, who looked bored, and hesitated for a moment before asking cautiously: "I also hope that Jing Haibo will tell the truth that there are enemies overseas that can penetrate Laideng's coastal defense and directly invade our Tianjin Wei?" ”

Without waiting for Chen Mu to speak, Yin Zhengmao raised his finger to the inscription of the design drawing, Yin Zhengmao's fingers are shorter, the knuckles are wide, even if they have wrinkles due to the destruction of the years, they still look strong and powerful, and the repaired and somewhat whitish nails point to Chen Mu with charcoal: Beiyang Yamen - Jinghai Position of Jinmen.

"Shore defense heavy artillery, deep ditch and high moat, temple turret, and Nanyang Junfu Island are the same; These industrial plots of land claimed by Jing Haibo are also similar to those of Guangzhou Prefecture, except for a large area of tuntian plots, which have not been seen in the past where Jing Haibo is located. ”

Yin Zhengmao frowned, and didn't seem to think that his words revealed that it was embarrassing to inspect all the places Chen Mu had passed and then say it, but he just talked about the matter, raised his head and asked again: "Overseas, there are six Ding Liujia who can't win?" ”

How should Chen Mu answer this question?

The capture of Dagukou was after 1840, but he just wanted to repair it, could he manage it?

"Yin Gong doesn't need to worry too much, there may be warships overseas that can win Liuding Liujia, but there is no possibility of attacking here." Chen Mu said with a smile: "It's just that Chen came here to see that Dagu, an important sea and land town close to Beijing, has been in disrepair for a long time, so he intends to renovate it. ”

Yin Zhengmao glanced at Chen Mu deeply, and seemed to sigh with emotion: "This salary and material cost, I'm afraid that the imperial court can't allow the Beiyang Yamen to build such a sea and land Xiongguan, or is Jing Haibo courageous, so he will not dare to go up to the lower officials-this silver tael, is it the expenditure of the Nanyang Military Government?" ”

Chen Mu blinked, and Yin Zhengmao asked knowingly.

By now, Chen Mu has understood that Yin Zhengmao's debriefing is different from his own, and his debriefing is to return his duties and find Xu Da; Yin Zhengmao is estimated to be looking for Xu Da as well, but he has already received a new position.

Chen Mu just pursed his lips and smiled, but he was actually a little anxious in his heart.

Your old man who is over sixty years old, has traveled thousands of miles to Shuntian to go straight to Dagukou, and you know with your ass that you don't want to sleep here and have a good meal - whether it's money or people, you have to give a clear sentence, and you have to let us hurry up and ask what you need?

Who knows that Yin Zhengmao sighed, shook his head and said: "This is not good, the Western military government is newly established, and there is no silver grain, such a position is good, it is difficult to use it abroad." ”

"The subordinate officer of the position charter has written down, and Jing Haibo has been tired and pointed out that when going to sea in a foreign country, how should the place where he passes through be created? As such, those are the most important, and everything is simple. ”

Yin Zhengmao arched his hand as he spoke, but Chen Mu's heart was relieved, and he asked thoughtfully: "Since the Western Military Government is empty, the Nanyang Military Government will first pay 200,000 taels of silver?" ”

"Hahaha, Jing Haibo misunderstood!"

Yin Zhengmao raised his head and laughed, and then said: "It is better to teach people to fish than to teach people to fish, the old man has a bad official reputation, but he has a way to make money, and he went to Tianjin first to report his work, one is to meet the chief, and the other is to ask Jing Haibo for advice on going to sea." ”

"To tell the truth, before the report, the old man first went to Guangzhou Mansion, and then boarded Macao and Nanyang Weigang, and took a boat to patrol the Nanyang Military Mansion...... I didn't look at the accounts, if I wanted to see it, I would also explain it to Jing Haibo in person. Yin Zhengmao said and smiled at Chen Mu, and said: "The old man is not in vain to ask Jing Haibo for advice, I say two things, if it is useful, please ask Jing Haibo to inform all things in the West; If the old man finds it useful, what does Jing Haibo think? ”

Hostage exchange?

"Then the junior will thank Yin Gong, if the two things are useful, the junior not only knows everything, but also allocates 200,000 taels of silver to the Western Military Government for the Western Military Government to recruit soldiers, purchase ordnance, and purchase grain and grass. I know that Yin Gong has a way to make money, and this right should be allocated to the start-up capital allocated to the East and West Eryang while Chen still has the financial power of Siyang, and there will be no such good days in the future. ”

When Yin Zhengmao heard Chen Mu say this, his eyes moved slightly, and then he picked up the charcoal on the table, and drew a few points on the design drawing: "The old man inspected Weigang, Junfu Island and Voyage to Tianjin, and he saw that Chen Shuai had always deployed, striving for heavy artillery bombardment, deep ditches and high trenches, but he missed the Feng Wei, and chose his high place to look around to build a pier platform, supplemented by a god eyepiece, you can look at a radius of twenty or thirty miles, and give an early warning. ”

"When the old man supervised Liangguang, he made a detailed chapter of the Feng Wei order, which has been handed over to the Navy Lecture Hall, if Jing Haibo feels useful, he can order someone to take it - maybe Chen Shuai just thinks it is useless, or he missed it, because the old man found that the Nanyang Military Government strictly complied with Chen Shuai's customization, even if there was a better way, he didn't dare to use it without Chen Shuai's order, so he said this."

Chen Mu found that he had missed this, and he was not timid, and said with a smile: "Indeed, as Yin Gong said, I have been using the Divine Eye Mirror and the ship patrol as an early warning, so I missed the beacon. ”

As for the second, it is also related to Chen Shuai's decision on the Nanyang matter. The old man patrolled the Nanyang Ordnance Bureau, and there were coal roasting reefs in Xinhui and Foshan nearby, which was very labor-saving to make iron, but the Ordnance Bureau only made willow wood because of Chen Shuai's order - Your Excellency can know that the reef can be extinguished in five days after entering the furnace, and the frying ore and boiling stone is the most labor-saving. ”

Yin Zhengmao looked at Chen Mu's stunned expression, and arched his hand and said, "Old man's words, can Yu Jinghaibo be useful?" ”

Chen Mu's astonishment was a little different from the source Yin Zhengmao's imagination.

With a very embarrassed expression, he exhaled slowly and arched his hand towards Yin Zhengmao.

Maybe I'm the only one who was asked, 'Do you know what coke is?' 'The traverser too.